WIGBOROUGH (LITTLE), a parish in the hundred
of WINSTREE, county of ESSEX, 7 miles (S. by
W.) from Colchester, containing 95 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of
Colchester, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the. king's
books at £ 10, and in the patronage of the Governors
of the Charter-house, London. The church is dedicated
to St. Nicholas. A creek of the Blackwater, termed
Mersea channel, bounds the parish on the east, and
another, called Verley channel, on the south.